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Erwartung's nightmare ambiguities can have a haunting power. The Santa Fe production makes them rather tame, except in the astringent sonorities arising from the orchestra pit. Soprano Nancy Shade, as the woman, has command of Schoenberg's difficult idiom, but her voice lacks the dramatic weight for a role that, as Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers describes it, is essentially "Isolde in nervous disintegration...
Loud-mouthed presidential brothers are nothing new, however. One has to go back to the Eisenhower era to find a president whose siblings kept their shenanigans in the shade. And even Ike's brother Edgar, a highbrow industrialist from Tacoma, Washington, liked to get in his digs at his brother the president. "Edgar's been criticizing me since I was five," Ike once joked at a press conference...
Ford telephoned Reagan, asked for a chance to see him. Reagan invited him to come right down. The meeting was brief: a mere 15 minutes. But the tone had turned touchy. Ford seemed a shade too assertive to suit Reagan. "Ron, I'm making a sacrifice here," he said, referring to the possibility of running. "And now I'm asking you to make a sacrifice. I want you to appoint Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State...
...passionate homosexual lived parallel lives that never touched. The circumstance showed in the verse. It sprang fully formed from the depths of the subconscious, and Housman would not apply to it, the work of the mind. His poetry thus remains a chiseled miniaturization, a little too simple, a shade too accessible. Graves persuasively argues that if the scholar and the poet had joined forces, if the homosexual and the classicist had agreed to cooperate, Housman would surely be ranked with such brooding Victorian giants as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy...
Graceful and majestic, their delicate, almond-shaped leaves framed against summer skies, elms once grew thickly in the forests of the eastern U.S. and served as shade trees along thousands of Main Streets. Then, in the early 1930s, disaster struck. A load of elm logs arrived from Europe infested with a parasitic fungus. First identified in 1919 by Dutch plant pathologists, the fungus, Ceratocystis ulmi, invades the elm's vascular system, clogging it and causing death. Beginning in the Cleveland and New York City areas, then in scores of other communities across the nation, American elms died...